"Hills Like White Elephants": The Jilting of Jig

AUTHOR(S)

Hashmi, Nilofer

PUB. DATE

September 2003

SOURCE

Hemingway Review;Fall2003, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p72

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Literary Criticism

ABSTRACT

Examines different scholarly interpretations of the ending of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants." Suggestion that the girl will have the abortion but will then leave the American; Suggested interpretation of the outcome that the girl will accede to the man's demands and proceed to Madrid where the girl will have the abortion in order to stay on with the man.

ACCESSION #

12399640

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